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McKergow, C.R.W. |
| Title |
Preparing to care in the 21st century: A personal search for the meaning of ontological competency through an embodied journey of the soul |
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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing; Professional development; Breast cancer; Cancer |
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This thesis is a philosophical inquiry that reflects a personal search for the meaning of ontological competency undertaken by the author after developing breast cancer. The text weaves together in creative synthesis, a collection of academic and personal writing undertaken during an MA (Applied) in Nursing degree process. Using the work of Dowling Singe (1999), Watson (1999), and Wilber (1985, 1990, 1991 & 2000), the thesis seeks, through the use of reflective autobiographical inquiry (Johnstone 1999a), to explore the personal meaning-making activities engaged in during this time to throw light upon the nature of nurse / nursing being. Exploring developmental schemata drawn from personal experience and illuminated by theory, nurses and nursing are challenged to become more self-reflective and self-aware. To facilitate the personal and professional growth that underpins notions of ontological competency, various aids in the form of maps and models are provided to support a transformative journey into awareness. From this position of expanding consciousness, the nurse / nursing is encouraged to reach beyond current paradigms, metaparadigms, epistemologies, and restrictive philosophies and to yield to the evolutionary imperative that seeks to prepare for a 21st century clinical practice where caring / healing becomes embodied enactment from “the Ground of All Being”. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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774 |
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McLeland, A.; Williams, A. |
| Title |
An emancipatory praxis study of nursing students on clinical practicum in New Zealand: Pushed to the peripheries |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
12 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
185-193 |
| Keywords |
Nursing; Education; Clinical supervision; Preceptorship |
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyse the learning experiences of nine nursing students on clinical placement in New Zealand. The students were in their third and final year of their baccalaureate nursing degree. The study specifically examined what impinged upon their learning experience in the clinical venue. Data was obtained from interviewing the students, initially individually and finally in a focus group. Themes emerged through words and concepts as the data was analysed. The themes included powerlessness; marginalisation; the move from a holistic to a reductionist approach in care; the exploitation of minority students and the myth of praxis. Clinical practice was a time for nursing students to apply their knowledge to their practice, and to gain experience and confidence. Their clinical practice was normally a positive experience, but, each student spoke of the occasional negative episode. These left them with feelings of powerlessness and marginalisation. The Maori students felt exploited. The students were concerned about the lack of time to debrief at the end of the day, and to share their experiences with their educator and colleagues. The students' negative experiences were often the result of a clinical practitioner's high workload, under resourcing and the nurse educator's unavailability. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1081 |
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McMillan, A. |
| Title |
The past influencing the future: A journey through occupational health |
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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Otago Polytechnic Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Occupational health and safety |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1268 |
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1253 |
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| Author |
Milligan, K. |
| Title |
Aesthetic knowledge and the use of arts in nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Beginning Journeys: A Collection of Work |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
7 |
Issue |
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Pages |
9-14 |
| Keywords |
Nursing philosophy; Nursing; Education; Teaching methods |
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The author considers aesthetic knowing and the use of the arts in nursing. She identifies concepts that pertain to the art of nursing. The interrelationship of the moral sense and the art of nursing is explored. The author concludes that the mediums of non-fiction, fiction and poetry can provide valuable contributions to the aesthetic way of knowing in nursing education, practice and research. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1094 |
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Muir-Cochrane, E.; Holmes, C.; Walton, J.A. |
| Title |
Law and policy in relation to the use of seclusion in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
13 |
Issue |
2/3 |
Pages |
136-145 |
| Keywords |
Psychiatric Nursing; Law and legislation; Policy; Patient rights; Cross-cultural comparison |
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This paper discusses legal issues associated with the seclusion of acutely disturbed patients in psychiatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. There continues to be great variation in opinion and operational definition as to whether seclusion is a medical treatment, nursing intervention and management tool, or merely a form of situational restraint. Reflecting this lack of clarity, mental health acts and policies concerning the regulation and practice of seclusion lack consistency and focus across geographical boundaries and jurisdictions. Australian and New Zealand legislation and institutional policy is discussed in order to shed light on the contemporary issues highlighted by this controversial nursing practice. The authors note that mental health professionals must continue to review the practice of seclusion and to actively promote the use of acceptable alternatives. In addition nurses and other mental health professionals have a responsibility to understand current legislation and policy frameworks and to influence change where this is necessary to ensure the best practice possible in their clinical area. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1074 |
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Nicol, M.J. |
| Title |
The teaching of genetics in New Zealand undergraduate nursing programmes |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Nurse Education Today |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
22 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
401-408 |
| Keywords |
Curriculum; Nursing; Education |
| Abstract |
This paper reports the results of a survey to determine how much genetics is taught in the bioscience component of the three-year Bachelor of Nursing degree offered by 16 tertiary education institutes in New Zealand. A questionnaire was mailed to the bioscience lecturers seeking information on the bioscience and genetics content of current programmes. They were also asked to indicate their perception of the impact and relevance of new genetic knowledge on health care and nursing education. Results indicated that on average 250-350 hours are devoted to the teaching of biosciences. Less than 10 hours are devoted to genetics at 66% of institutes, one institute did not teach any aspect of genetics. None of the institutes taught more than 20 hours of genetics in the programme, although 47% of lecturers said they would like to teach more genetics if there were more time available in the curriculum. Lecturers teaching bioscience to Bachelor of Nursing students are aware of the importance of genetics in health care and to nursing in particular, and the majority are of the opinion that more genetics should be included in undergraduate programmes, however 'curriculum crowding' is a problem. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1076 |
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Nicol, M.J.; Manoharan, H.; Marfell-Jones, M.; Meha-Hoerara, K.; Milne, R.; O'Connell, M.; Oliver, J.D.; Teekman, B. |
| Title |
Issues in adolescent health: A challenge for nursing |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Contemporary Nurse |
Abbreviated Journal |
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| Volume |
12 |
Issue |
2 |
Pages |
155-163 |
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Adolescents; Health education; Health promotion; Nursing; Risk factors; Suicide; Sexual health; Smoking; Mental health |
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This review provides an overview of the health issues for adolescents, and the implications for nursing practice, particularly around health promotion. It looks at the social context of adolescents including peer pressure, along with health issues such as suicide, mental health, sexual health, and smoking. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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712 |
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O'Reilly, A.F. |
| Title |
Relinquishing personhood in dementia: Discordant discourses: A nurse's inquiry |
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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Dementia; Nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Relationships |
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This thesis traces the journey of the author's inquiry into family members' experience of the relinquishment of the personhood of a loved one with a dementia; a journey in which she reports that her own prior understandings were significantly challenged. The study was prompted by her experience of working in the area of dementia care and hearing, in the course of the working day, comments such as 'there's nobody there' made in relation to someone suffering from severe dementia. Such comments appear to imply that the person of the dementia sufferer in some way is no longer present. They are comments which relate to the very nature of personhood. The study takes impetus from the fact that the ways in which nurses view the personhood of dementia sufferers has significant consequences for the ways in which they respond to dementia sufferers and their families. This thesis, which retells the stories of four family members who each have a loved one with a dementia illness, reveals that rather than there being a unified concept of personhood in dementia, and in spite of the fact that particular understandings of dementia and personhood dominate our cultural conversations, in their day to day lives these four family members managed and made sense of their experience through particular and different ways of looking at the impact dementia has on the personhood of dementia sufferers. Not all did, in fact, relinquish the personhood of their family member. In their lived lives, the four research participants had recourse, each in different ways, to multiple discourses of personhood. For some, in addition to loss, there was also unexpected gain. This finding necessitated and shaped further inquiry into discourse and the role of discourse in shaping, constraining and opening up possibilities for meaning, and into the two substantive areas of dementia and personhood. Nurses work closely alongside the family of dementia sufferers who are daily faced with the challenge of managing and making meaning of that situation. It is critically important that they are able to recognise, validate and support the variety of needs that family members have. Nurses, whose education is traditionally based on a biomedical framework, are nevertheless often required to mediate between different understandings. Not only do they need currency of knowledge in the rapidly changing biomedical field of dementia, but they need also an understanding of the role and the power of discursive constructions of both dementia and personhood. Such understanding will provide insight into alternate ways of understanding these concepts. However, although such understanding is critical for nurses working in this area, the author suggests that nursing literature has not brought these discussions to the fore. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 792 |
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776 |
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| Author |
O'Sullivan, C. |
| Title |
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Attitudes and knowledge of medical and nursing staff |
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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Massey University Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Attitude of health personnel; Emergency nursing |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1262 |
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1247 |
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| Author |
Pearson, J.R. |
| Title |
Health promotion in one New Zealand primary school: A case study |
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2002 |
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Abbreviated Journal |
ResearchArchive@Victoria |
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Health promotion; Evaluation; Students; Maori; Pacific peoples; Health education |
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The objectives of this study were to explore the concept of the 'health-promoting school' in a specific New Zealand context; to develop and use appropriate research methods to assess a single low decile school in relation to World Health Organization health-promoting school components and checkpoints; to work with the school community to identify health issues; and, to record external and internal changes that could impact on school health over a finite time period. Case study was selected as the most appropriate method to collect both quantitative and qualitative evidence with the aim of providing a clear understanding of the particular case. Results confirmed that the school was working appropriately within the scope of their educational practice to provide a health-promoting school environment for the school community. Gaps and issues identified included an element of talking past each other between the cultures of the education organisation and the nominated health service provider respectively that contributed to a lack of appropriate and accessible health service delivery for the school population. Teaching staff considered that they had insufficient access to health knowledge, and input from health service staff did not meet health education requirements for the school. Staff preference for increased school nurse involvement was not realised. The consequence was that two outside agencies (KiwiCan and Life Education Trust) delivered the bulk of the Health and Physical Education curriculum which resulted in a degree of fragmentation of health education for students. The issues that were identified demonstrated that health services in the area were not satisfactorily meeting the needs of the community and were not addressing the health inequities for the predominantly Pacific Island and Maori students and of their families that formed the school community. The researcher concluded that a full-service school approach should be considered by the school and the local district health board as one way to overcome the current lack of access to health services for the school community. Assertions included the potential integration of locally available services by a school-based nurse coordinator supported by health professionals (nurse practitioner and Pacific Island Community Health Worker) and social workers. The vision included professionals working within their professional scopes of practice as part of a Primary Health Organisation with the aim of appropriately addressing the health inequities experienced by the school population. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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1184 |
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| Author |
Powell, J. |
| Title |
Caring for patients after an ICU admission |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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| Volume |
8 |
Issue |
7 |
Pages |
24-25 |
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Intensive care nursing; Nurse-patient relations; Trauma; Communication |
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The author presents research on nursing strategies that reduce the psychological effects of critical illness and prevent the intensive care unit (ICU) atmosphere from adversely affecting the nurse-patient relationship. Post-traumatic stress disorder and other phobic anxiety syndromes are noted as a risk among former ICU patients. Four interventions to put in place for discharge are presented: patient-centred nursing, communication, multidisciplinary care, and patient/family education. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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954 |
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Ramsden, I. |
| Title |
Cultural safety and nursing education in Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu |
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2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Cultural safety; Maori; Nursing; Education |
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The research on which this thesis is based involves both a private narrative and a public narrative, with the story of cultural safety, and the history, theory and the future direction gathered into one qualitative work. The work is divided into three sections. The first is entitled, Ko Wai Matou? The Private Narrative. This section seeks to explore the historical, social, educational, physical, emotional, political and moral influences and ephiphanies which brought about the personality which introduced cultural safety ideas into nursing and midwifery. Early nursing practice is investigated and examples from practice are used to illustrate learning and consolidation of the ideas which led to Cultural Safety Theory. The second section is entitled He Huarahi Hou: A New Pathway. This section explains the progress of the theory and its relationship to education pedagogy and to nursing practice. Comparison between the work of Madeline Leininger and the Transcultural Theory of Nursing and the New Zealand concept of cultural safety is undertaken. The role and application of the Treaty of Waitangi to the theory of cultural safety is explored in this section. The third section, entitled He Whakawhanuitanga: The Public Narrative, looks at the introduction of cultural safety into the nursing education system and its implementation. The public and media reaction to the inclusion of cultural safety in the national examination for nursing registration and the subsequent parliamentary response are noted. The interviews with nursing and midwifery leadership, Maori and pakeha key players in the process and consumer views of the ideas are documented and pertinent excerpts have been included. The work concludes with a discussion on the likely future of cultural safety as a theory and in practice and outlines several issues which represent a challenge to the viability of the concept in nursing and midwifery education. The author notes that the story of cultural safety is a personal story, but also a very public one. It is set in neo-colonial New Zealand, but has implications for indigenous people throughout the world. It is about human samenesses and human differences, but is also a story about all interactions between nurses and patients because all are power laden. Finally, she points out that, although it is about nursing, it is also relevant to all encounters, all exchanges between health care workers and patients. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ |
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486 |
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| Author |
Raynel, S. |
| Title |
Nurse-led clinics on ophthalmic practice: A vision for the future |
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2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
Victoria University of Wellington Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
Nursing specialties |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1267 |
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1252 |
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| Author |
Sadlier, C. |
| Title |
Gaining insight into the experience of diabetes |
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Journal Article |
| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand |
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| Volume |
8 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
14-16 |
| Keywords |
Diabetes Type 2; Maori; Nursing |
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This article reports a research project that investigated the experience and expectations of Maori who were newly-diagnosed with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Four people diagnosed with NIDDM were interviewed over 12 months. Participant recommendations are incorporated into suggested improvements for managing the condition. |
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NRSNZNO @ research @ 1020 |
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1004 |
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| Author |
Sargison, P.A. |
| Title |
Essentially a woman's work: A history of general nursing in New Zealand, 1830-1930 |
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| Year |
2002 |
Publication |
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Abbreviated Journal |
University of Otago Library |
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Pages |
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| Keywords |
History of nursing; Gender |
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| Call Number |
NRSNZNO @ research @ 1127 |
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1112 |
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